On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:10:40 -0500 Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> On 05/21/2012 08:59 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > On Fri, 18 May 2012 19:08:42 +0200 > > Paolo Bonzini<pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > >> Modified QMP commands > >> ===================== > > > > As we have discussed on the ML, we're not going to extend QMP commands. > > > > I understand your reasoning, and since the beginning I thought this was > > something useful to do, but we've already settled for not doing this. > > > > I also think that we shouldn't have exceptions, as in practice this means > > we're extending commands anyway. So either, we do it or we don't. > > Well, I think we should ask ourselves the following question: > > How would a client figure out if the new options are available? > > This is the primary reason for not extending existing commands. Yes, I know. But if Paolo implements schema introspection, would you agree on extending commands. You seemed to be against even if we had schema introspection.
